In an early post, I blogged about Tania Lopez and her pursuits in creating a community organization based on the promotion of nutrition and healthy cooking with Coqui the Chef. She was successfully able to use online media to spread her message of her intended goals. Now Tania is moving to the next level by using Kickstarter to reach a wider audience. Kickstarter is considered the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects where people freely pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music, film, art, technology, design, food, publishing and other creative fields. With Kickstarter, you can invest up to $5 or more, the more money you invest the more you will receive as a reward for contributing by the project creator, this includes products or public credit.

With Kickstarter, Tania hopes to continue expanding her passion of health and nutrition with projects that needs help funding. Below is her mission statement for Coqui the Chef:

Our mission to teach our kids about healthy eating and fun cooking with cooking demos in your community, participation in health fairs/carnivals, visits to public schools, and much more. By pledging, you help Coqui The Chef spread the message about healthy eating and fun cooking with cooking demos for local communities, participation in health fairs/carnivals, visit to public schools, and much more.

Perhaps you can help Tania in fulfilling her goals. You contribute as little or as much as you want, all for a great cause. I wish her the best of luck and continued success!

• Striving to Make a Difference: Coqui the Chef (brooklyncupcake.wordpress.com)
• We Need More TV Chefs To Teach Food Basics (blisstree.com)